We want to prepare as many children as we can for that all-important first year of formal schooling, both in terms of academic knowledge and skills, as well as executive functioning and social emotional learning abilities.
Impact on Education partners with the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) to fund summer learning for over 160 rising Kindergarten students. Access to early learning, including reading and math, is not equitably available to all children who will enroll in the district, so we invest in this program to provide access to those historically underserved.
Working with BVSD and community partners we identify the students most likely to be in need of programming to prepare them for the classroom.
We invest in Kinder Bridge through our partnership with BVSD because our schools are well-positioned to provide young children and their families with high quality early learning experiences.
Summer instruction focuses on letter recognition, counting, letter sound formation and recognition, and name-writing. They also cultivate executive functioning and social emotional learning skills which are important for kindergarten readiness.
School readiness can significantly impact everything from reading at grade level to graduating high school to being career ready later in life.
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With nearly 30,000 students in the Boulder Valley School District, our work addresses systemic barriers and prioritizes those furthest from resources. We’re eager to see what we can accomplish this year, and are already working in three areas where we can increase opportunity and academic success for our students.
Where students learn matters. In Colorado, without adequate state funding, school districts are on their own to provide and maintain the schools where students and teachers do their essential work everyday. The only way for BVSD to address the critical needs included in ballot measure 5A is by asking our taxpayers — our community — for help.
Our early childhood education program was woven into BVSD’s summer learning, allowing us to serve four times the number of students for 50% more instructional hours. These students wouldn’t have otherwise had access to summer preschool and would have arrived in our kindergarten classrooms less prepared than their peers.
In partnership with BVSD, rising Kindergarteners are learning reading, math and executive functioning skills during our six week Kinder Bridge program.
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